Tiptoeing into the e-reader world.
THE SOURCE: “That Old College Lie” by Kevin Carey, in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Winter 2010.
FLIGHT FROM MONTICELLO:
Thomas Jefferson at War.
By Michael Kranish.
Oxford Univ. Press. 388 pp. $27.95
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A prize often awarded to send a message sometimes has the unintended effect of mobilizing forces opposed to change and impeding liberalization.
A century and a half after the first state seceded from the Union,a lively debate over what caused the Civil War continues.
Two decades after Solidarity’s triumph, Poland is leveraging its geography and aid dollars to pay forward the support its struggling democratic movement received from abroad.
Big business gets the headlines, but thousands of upstart companies do most of the heavy lifting in the American economy.
Even when big business was incontestibly king, entrepreneurial forces drove the American economy and powered its periodic renewals. Today, there are worrisome signs that the game is up.
For all of China’s economic achievements, the heyday of its entrepreneurs lies more than 20 years in the past. Renewing that era’s rural capitalism would yield more balanced growth and go a long way toward reducing today’s trade tensions.
THE SOURCE: “Growing Up in a Recession: Beliefs and the Macroeconomy” by Paola Giuliano and Antonio Spilimbergo, in The NBER Digest, Jan. 2010.